Should I rewrite all my URLs ?

[kivanSOM]

Hi all,

I'm pretty new here and this is a question I'm struggling with since years !

All my URLs are very long. Years ago I wanted to put as many keywords as possible but today I'm not sure anymore it was such a good idea.

Example:

http://www.spirit-of-metal.com/album-groupe-Take_Me_To_Janus-nom_album-Ripping_the_Heart_from_the_Chest_of_the_Earth-l-en.html

The problem is I have more than 300K of these pages. I'm afraid to create a huge mess even if I 301 them all to the new pages.

What's your opinion ? Is it worth the effort ?

Many thanks in advance for your precious help !

[XNUMERIK]

In SEO we have a saying "If it ain't broken, don't fix it!"

As long as everything is fine with your ranking and trafic, you should not worry too much about those long URLs

I think it is not worth the effort

However, you should probably make sure new content is given shorter urls

Best of luck!